The Tripura government has exported organic GI-tagged queen pineapples to the Oman country on Thursday.
The state agriculture minister Ratan Lal Nath flagged off a train, where the consignments of queen pineapple weighing around 600 kgs were boarded for departure to Oman from Agartala railway station.
Flagging off the train, the minister said that the state will soon export 30 metric tons of queen pineapple to Holland country. With the collaborative efforts of NERAMAC, SIMPET, and the State government, 600 kgs of Queen Pineapple grown in Tripura have been exported to Oman, he said.
He further informed that the Tripura government received an order from Dubai for 5 metric tons of Queen Pineapple, and negotiations are underway to export approximately 30 metric tons to Holland.
Earlier, Tripura’s have been exported to Dubai, Qatar, and Bangladesh. “Over the past five years, we have exported 33 metric tons of pineapples internationally and 12,500 metric tons to other states in India,” the minister said.
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